Monday, 8 October 2018

Hats For The Homeless

Last winter, as the temperatures plummeted, a call was put out for clothing, coats, hats and gloves, to help the homeless. It's a terrible thing to have no home and my heart goes out to those in this predicament, especially so in the harsher weather.

Back in May, I decided to start knitting some hats from yarn I'd got in stash, ready to donate to those in need this winter. I've managed to knit ten in different sizes, styles and colours.

The Yorkshire Building Society are running Socktober, their month long appeal throughout October where they request donations of socks and other items to help support homeless people. The campaign is part of the society's charity partnership with End Youth Homelessness and to raise awareness of World Homeless Day which is on Wednesday the 10th of October. I popped along to my nearest branch and popped the hats I've made into their collection bin.

I'd like to think that ten people will be a little warmer now this winter.

46 comments:

I love knitting hats. I like to knit for half an hour before I go to bed, just to give my min a little time to stop running all over the place, and I've knitted so many hats over the years I can do them without much thought. Mine go to charity too - I sent fifteen off a few days ago. Keep up the good work.

Hats are easy things to knit and don't take too much yarn. I think they're a great thing to knit for the homeless as so much heat escapes from the head. I'm hoping they help keep some people warm this winter.

Hello Jo, and thanks for visiting my blog. Like you, I knit for charity too, it seems the least we can do, and I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to be without a roof over your hear, a home you can go to when things get difficult.

You expect that the most basic thing, a roof over your head, is something you'll always have. Unfortunately, that's not so for some people. There's so many charities which are thankful to receive knitted items.

Lovely thing to do, I agree life must be hard on the streets. We don't get too many rough sleepers in our small town and none in the village, but we decided a couple of years ago to buy them hot food and drink, often from Greg's who do a homeless meal deal.

I didn't know that Greggs do a meal deal for the homeless. I've never seen a rough sleeper in our small town either but there's so many of them in Leeds, it really is quite dreadful that they have to live this way.

WEll done, they will truly make someone more comfortable and feel better. I know whenever I take the donations from my charity, Bridge and Beyond to the various shelters how well things are received. Keep up the good work.

what a fabulous thing to do! I knitted a square blanket last year ... hmmm ... all the squares are still here in a pile, needing their ends sewed in and then knitted together - it's a long time till next winter now, so they'll sit here for months and months still!

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Thank you for visiting. I'm Jo, fifty and happily married with two grown up children and a dog called Archie. Take a peek Through The Keyhole into my home on the outskirts of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. Here you'll see a little of what I get up to on my crafty adventures as well as snippets of family life. I hope you enjoy reading along.